Police investigate body found on North Side

Columbus homicide detectives are investigating a body found in a trash container on Sierra Ridge Drive on the North Side.

Jeb Phillips, The Columbus Dispatch

Columbus homicide detectives are investigating a body found in a trash container on Sierra Ridge Drive on the North Side.

Police were called at 1:50 p.m. to the Green Hill Village apartment complex, north of Rt. 161 and west of Westerville Road. A picker looking for scrap metal in the container found the body and called police, homicide Sgt. Steven Little said.

The body appeared to be that of a white man and was wrapped in a sheet, Little said.

Police saw no outward signs of trauma but will investigate the case as a homicide for now, he said.

A city trash truck will take the entire container to the Franklin County coronerís office for examination.